Attica Prison, New York

Sent him off to prison
Foa a seventy-dollar robbery.
Closed the dorr behind him
And they threw away the key.


Timothy Herrick (TIMHRK@aol.com):

George Jackson. The prison he was slain in was Attica, by the way
which is where Joey spent ten years with Nitchze and Wilhelm Reich, and where
he lost a little weight. 
Attica Correctional Facility at Attica, N.Y., is the scene of the bloodiest
one-day encounter between Americans since the Indian massacres of the late
nineteenth century. Inmates of the overcrowded prison discover inexplicable
differences in sentences and parole decisions that appear to have a racial
bias, outraged prisoners take over cell blocks beginning September 9, 1971 and kill
several trusty guards, state police move in September 13 by order of Gov.
Rockefeller, 39 inmates are killed and more than 80 wounded in the 15 minutes
it takes for the police to retake the prison; the total death toll is 43. 

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